A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

GJ 1214 b, nicknamed Enaiposha, is a planet discovered 47 light-years away that has been reclassified from a mini-Neptune to a "super-Venus" due to its atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide and aerosols.

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Over the past decade, astronomers have found that many of these stars have multiple rocky planets orbiting them. Enter MAROON-X, an instrument mounted on the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii that ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...